Few noticed back in April, if it was even announced stateside, that EA Sports' MVP Baseball series was returning as an online game in South Korea. It's an interesting re-emergence of a brand many sports gamers remember fondly, but it offers little hope of the game actually returning in North America.

MVP Baseball's last MLB-licensed game was published in 2005, and it was widely acclaimed. An exclusive deal between 2K Sports and Major League Baseball drove it out of the market. As that license is set to expire this year, and the end of MLB 2Kis practically confirmed, Xbox 360-owning baseball fans are concerned there'll be no MLB-licensed product for their system in 2013. This news wouldn't figure to change that.